To Sir, With Love - Glee version. I’m dedicating this song to all of my Londoners.
how it’s so much easier to write about a subject that boils your blood? wait, okay. maybe ‘boils your blood’ is too harsh, at least in this case.
we’ve been assigned internship assessment papers as part of our academic requirements while partying—i mean studying abroad. so basically, i’m writing an evaluation of what i did and how it compared to my expectations.
don’t get me wrong, i love the people i work with and the mission i work for…I just never wanted to be in PR and that’s what I got with this opportunity. It’s so much easier to write when you’re not a hundred percent pleased with the subject at hand.
didn’t you ever notice that comments on ‘Rate Your Professor’ or reviews of television episodes are heavily on the negative side? nothing drives fingertips to the keyboard like unsatisfactory performace.
with that being said, check out my internship’s website, because it really is a great cause… www.thechildrenssociety.org.uk
DIPSET.
invisible children knows the deal.
We were asked to post a journal assignment for class about how our experience abroad has changed us and this is what I came up with. I didn’t put a lot into writing it, but I thought I’d share anyway, because the feelings are here to stay:
I think this experience has made me many things, as I’m sure it has done the same for everyone. Before I got to London, I always considered myself an independent, but I don’t think I ever actually understood the depth of that word until I traveled around Europe. You don’t have to be alone to be an independent person. I was never alone on my backpacking adventures; however I was neither sheltered nor cared for: I wasn’t alone, but I was on my own. I’ve learned to accept that sometimes things get really screwed up and the last thing that’s going to help you is crying about everything that’s gone wrong. Suck it up, figure it out and keep moving.
I’ve also found that I value friendships much more than I used to. Don’t get me wrong, I have never been the loner type, and I have always had a special place reserved in my life for the few close connections I’ve made over the years. I’m an extrovert, a people person, and I have been since I could speak. However, this experience made me notice how important it is to keep making connections because it’s possible that there are people out there who you haven’t discovered who can alter your life in ways you can’t even fathom.
The people I’ve met through this program have become intricate parts of my daily routine, their faces, smiles and voices filling up the voids between class and work, partying and sleeping. I’ve done things I’ve never done before like going out on consecutive Tuesday nights and having an amazing time at a less than cool club, cleaning other people’s rotten dishes, learning how to knit, sitting with my laptop surrounded by six others and not saying a word for hours, going to one of the best parties I’ve ever been to just by staying home. It’s amazing how living on top of people can change the way you see and connect with them.
All of us have shared this invaluable time together, and even if we haven’t formed an intimate friendship with every last person, we all are forever connected by this incredible less than four months. People who didn’t participate will never be able to understand what it’s like when peers you’ve never laid eyes on are some of the most important people in your life just a few short months later.
I am a very different person than I was four months ago, and somehow I am very much the same. I have the same values and beliefs and aspirations, but I have a completely different gauge on how I can get there and the people I’ll meet and things I’ll see along the way. A lot of moments were far from perfect, but those are the things compose make the stories we’ll tell and the memories we’ll keep. Every time I say ‘Oh, I’ve been to Europe’ I’ll remember the people I spent it with and the amazing opportunity that I never could have prepared myself for. I will undoubtedly miss this place and these people terribly.
Well, funny you asked. I just discovered this word while procrastinating. Mamihlapinatapai is a word from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego. It translates in English as “a look shared by two people with each wishing that the other will initiate something that they both desire but which neither one wants to start.”
there’s your diction lesson for the day.
Amen.
The legendary lovestory between you and Ron, what’s your take on it?
Emma: I just think it’s such a charming love story because they’re so unlikely and yet they make this kind of amazing couple. I can’t wait to see the finale where they finally, FINALLY, after 7 years get it together.
(via everythingharrypotter)
O Children | Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds (Harry & Hermione dance)
Geoff really hated this scene and so I keep putting it on and making him slow dance with me.
(Source: veronica-wasboyski)
“I had always planned that Harry’s true soul mate, which I stand by, is Ginny, and that Ron and Hermione have this combative but mutual attraction. They will always bicker, there will always be rough edges there, but they are pulled together, each has something the other needs…Now the fact is that Hermione shares moments with Harry that Ron will never be able to participate in. He walked out. She shared something very intense with Harry.” -J.K. Rowling.
(Source: eternallyinthetardis, via iamonlyamaid)
i’ve said it before and i’ll say it again. it’s inevitable. i’m terrible at keeping up with my tumblr.
while you contemplate this fact, here are some things you can buy me for my birthday/christmas.
this t-shirt from TeamStarKid.com. maybe i’m nerdy, i don’t care.
Nikon D3100 DSLR. I need video.
THANKS.
